• Manager says Brazilian ‘has to work really hard’ to get his spot back • Centre-half was not even on the bench for Manchester United match Antonio Conte has warned David Luiz he faces a battle to regain his place in the first team after dropping the centre-half for the champions’ critical victor...

Antonio Conte praises Chelsea's desire and fight following the 1-0 win over Manchester United on Sunday. 'We played with a great energy, a great passion, a great enthusiasm, ' says the Chelsea head coach. His Manchester United counterpart José Mourinho comments that he believed the first goal of...

Aided by the return of N’Golo Kanté, the Spanish midfielder stood out by doing what Manchester United could not: pass the ball with maturity, patience and craft And then there was one. With just over an hour gone at Stamford Bridge and Manchester United trailing 1-0 thanks to Álvaro Morata’s subl...

This is the kind of result to choke talk of a crisis at Chelsea. The Premier League’s summit may remain distant, but the din which erupted inside this arena at the final whistle while Antonio Conte celebrated manically looking up towards the top tier of the east stand said it all. José Mourinho h...

Manchester United travel to Stamford Bridge on Sunday to face Chelsea in the Premier League. José Mourinho's men have been in good form of late having only lost once so far this season. Champions Chelsea meanwhile have three losses in their previous seven games in all competitions Antonio Conte r...

You might not know it listening to José Mourinho but United are having a great season while Antonio Conte does not even seem to know his best team To correct a misleading impression that has been slowly building up over the last few weeks, largely because a certain resident of the Lowry hotel has...

In Spain the Portuguese’s Real Madrid twice outscored his rival’s Barcelona but the Manchester United manager’s big-match caution comes at a price while City are dazzling It can feel like a trick of the imagination sometimes to remember there was once a time when José Mourinho and Pep Guardiola w...

It will be fascinating to see whether José Mourinho arrives back at Stamford Bridge with caution on his mind given Chelsea’s defeat in Rome in midweek suggested the champions are there for the taking. Antonio Conte, stung personally by that embarrassment, has conducted his own debrief and will ex...

• Manchester United manager: ‘I moan about a lot but I don’t with injuries’ • Mourinho says depleted squad should be shown more understanding José Mourinho has said he should moan more after concluding that Manchester United are not afforded enough sympathy about their injury problems because he...

Huddersfield Town could be forgiven for expecting to win on current form especially after beating Manchester United in their last match at home. However West Bromwich Albion showed they still have a huge amount of spirit, in their narrow loss to Manchester City, and will be keen to show David Wag...

• Mourinho pays €3.3m fees demanded after appearing in Madrid court • ‘I didn’t argue, I paid, and everything is definitively closed’ he says José Mourinho declared the case brought against him for alleged tax fraud to be closed after he accepted the arguments put forward by Spain’s Inland Revenu...

• United manager says he is judged more negatively than others managers • ‘In four or five years probably no one will remember I was Chelsea manager’ José Mourinho has claimed Manchester United are unfairly deprived of the praise they deserve while his rivals are lauded for producing similar disp...

• Matic says he does not care what reception he gets from Chelsea fans • Midfielder to face club for first time since summer transfer to United Nemanja Matic believes he has nothing to prove when Manchester United travel to his former club Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday. The midfielder l...

Zinedine Zidane’s side arrive in London after their worst start in the league since the José Mourinho era but the Champions League has often been their escape On the plane back from defeat in Girona on Sunday evening Zinedine Zidane went over the game again while in the rows behind him his player...

The Manchester United manager continued his needless bickering with a section of the home support in his programme notes but his reasons remain unclear Enjoy the game is a phrase every football fan reads every week if they buy a match programme and bother with the manager’s notes. It is a standar...

The Manchester United manager, José Mourinho, says he was just doing his job by instructing Daley Blind to take a penalty in the win over Benfica on Tuesday. Romelu Lukaku was quick to grab the ball when United were awarded the spot-kick in the 78th minute but Mourinho signalled he wanted someone...

Manchester United are a technically point away from the Champions League knockout phase with this fourth win from four Group A matches. This is a fine position but José Mourinho will not have aided the struggling Romelu Lukaku’s confidence after insisting Daley Blind take United’s second penalty...

Champions League Group C updates from the Stadio Olimpico Manchester United v Benfica – live! | Celtic v Bayern Munich – live! Live scores: keep up with all the goals from around Europe And feel free to email Barry here . Or tweet him @bglendenning 6.47pm GMT Kostas Manolas, the Roma defender, is...

Champions League Group A updates from Old Trafford Live scores: all the goals from around Europe Scott’s new book: The Title: The Story of the First Division And feel free to email scott.murray@theguardian.com 10.48am GMT which could see Manchester United book their place in the knockout phase in...

• ‘I hope you enjoy the game more than some of you did against Spurs’ • United manager said unfair that supporters ‘don’t support Lukaku so much’ Apparent tension between José Mourinho and sections of Manchester United supporters continued on Tuesday as he implied some of them did not enjoy Satur...

Manchester kid’s meteoric rise has been powered by fearlessness and dedication, say those who knew him coming through at United and England The thrill for Marcus Rashford as he turns 20 is where the rest of his career might take him. In 18 months the boy who ceases to be a teenager on Halloween h...

• United manager urges fans not to judge striker on goals alone • Mourinho says he will protect his players when they deserve it José Mourinho has described Romelu Lukaku as “untouchable in my team”, with the Manchester United manager saying he has to protect his players when they deserve it. Aft...

Today’s tell-all keeps a close watch on this heart of mine Belgium right-back Thomas Meunier is getting itchy feet at Paris Saint-Germain, where he has started only six of the club’s 11 league matches and is yet to feature in the Champions League. Increasingly tired of playing second fiddle to Da...

Arsenal need Sead Kolasinac to recover quickly; Liverpool’s search for a penalty-taker goes on; and Newcastle prepare for a ‘sliding doors’ moment Next Sunday, Manchester City host Arsenal at 1.30pm and Manchester United play Chelsea at 4pm; it really is amazing just how often the fixture list th...